Privacy-preserving 802.11 access-point discovery

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, WiSec'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-130

  Lindqvist, Janne ^a   Aura, Tuornas ^a,c   Danezis, George ^c   Koponen, Teemu ^b   Myllyniemi, Annu ^a   Mäki, Jussi ^a   Roe, Michael ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Access point discovery; IEEE 802.11; Privacy; WLAN

Indexed keywords

802.11 WLANS; ACCESS POINTS; ACCESS-POINT DISCOVERY; DISCOVERY PROTOCOL; IEEE 802.11; NETWORK DISCOVERY; PRIVACY; PRIVACY PRESERVING; PRIVACY RISKS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; USER EXPERIENCE; WLAN;

INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; PROBES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 70349139640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1514274.1514293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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